I've been thinking since the final whistle trying not to be rash and jump to any conclusions unnecessarily but it has to be said now. I've easily been his top 3 supporters on here since day one, but he has lost my complete confidence. He is out of ideas half the time, shows little guts when we need to kick it into gear. I don't blame the transfer mercato. We have mega attacking players that have stopped doing what they crushed teams with last year. I don't know what it is, maybe Max is burnt and needs a break. Whatever the case, if I were on the board I'd be meeting with the Trio drawing up a shortlist.
We have been bleeding goals and its taken him to a fortnight to December to have a clean sheet against a top team. It took a MASSIVE change in formation, lineup, and tactics. Couldn't score, even when the best player on the planet was benched. Barely looked like we threatened aside from that 91st min (lol) pop shot by Dybala to force a corner.
I mean, what the hell is he doing playing Khedira when we have a much better and now health CM in Marchisio? Hardly any regularity for Rugani to grow. We are constantly overrun in midfield but he doesn't use Matuidi when we need muscle in midfield. He can't seem to get our key starters Cuadrado, Higuain Pjanic, SANDRO (for gods sake he is pissing me off), or Dybala performing with any kind of consistency. This team is scary as hell when its in top gear and clicking, but have we actually seen that yet this year? Don't count Udinese...horrible fucking team.
The last 3 years you have to give Max credit for flexing the lineup around with tinkering here and there to finally get the team winning...but man, something about this season makes me feel like that moment where things change and we start steamrolling isn't going to happen.
Without being obvious, we fail to qualify for CL he has got to go. Big comment from me but please god let him prove me wrong.